Fan



F. F. ROTHENHOEFER.

FAN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1918.

Eateante Sept. 1926 UNETED STATS PATET FFI'E.

FREDERICK F. BOTHENHOEFER, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THE ll/ION- ARCH LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

FAN.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented Sept. 7, 1920.

Application filed June 24, 1918'. Serial No. 241,537.

To alien/tom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK F. ROTH- ENI-IOEFER, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Covington, in the county of Kenton and State of laentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fans, of which the following specification is a full disclosure.

My invention relates to a fan.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap and ornamental cardboard fan and carton, of a single piece, having folding sections forming a reinforced hand-grip por tion and thumb aperture, which can be cheaply shipped and does not require a hand stick.

The features of the invention are more fully set forth in the description of the.

accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure '1 is a plan view of the front of the fan.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the rear face of.

the fan.

Fig. 8 is a plan view of the fan blank.

Fig. 1 is a section on line 4, i, Fig. 2.

The blank 1 is fan-shaped, its lower portion having the scored lines 2, 3, extending from opposite sides of the fan convergingly downward to a point of intersection medial of the base 5, and providing the wings 6, 7, which fold backward upon the rear face of this fan, as indicated in Fig. 2. Within the angle formed by lines 2, 3, is a rearwardly folding flap 9, cut as shown by full line, Fig. 3, and folding on scored (dotted) line 11, Fig. 3, which provides a thumb aperture 10, Fig. 1, and also a rearwardly and downwardly folding flap or panel 9, which overlaps and bridges the meeting edges of the wings 6, 7. The straight edges of the base 5, are brought together on the rear face of the fan and covered by the panel 9, the wings and panel being secured to the body of the fan by staple 12, thus forming a re inforced convenient hand grip and thumb aperture.

This is a cheap, simple, artistic, and available advertising carton, which can be cheaply shipped and readily converted from blank to fan formation. 1

Having described my invention, 1 laim 1. A one-piece cardboard fan comprising a blank of suitable outline, having a straight edge as a base, oppositely disposed diagonal scored lines extending from said base edge at points central of the blank, dividing the blank into a body portion and two oppositely disposed flaps, the flaps folded upon the body portion on the scored lines, and a tongue cut from the center of said body portion and bent upon and secured to said flaps to provide a thumb receiving opening through the body portion.

2. A one-piece cardboard fan comprising a blank havingedge portions folded upon themselves along opposite diagonal lines extending from a central edge point of the blank, providing opposite flaps, and a tongue out out of the body of the blank folded upon said flaps to provide an opening through the body to receive the thumb of the hand, and means for securing said folded parts together. a

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, as attested by the two subscribing witnesses.

. FREDERICK r. ROTHENHOEFER 

